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Easy Listening Acid Trip: An elevator ride through Sixties psychedelic pop

126 points by tintinnabula 5y ago

Alex3917 5y ago
What are the earliest examples of psychedelic video? For music everyone seems to agree that the first psychedelic song was 8 miles high, but I can't find an answer for film. The movies from 1966 and 1967 seem to just portray people tripping by projecting multicolored lights onto their mostly naked bodies. But then by 1969(?), you have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzFUX5a3xg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzFUX5a3xg Which is basically the same as Altered States, and everything after up until the era of computer graphics. But is there anything in between, before that spirit in the sky video? See also the relevant Altered States scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40FiMy-ak0k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40FiMy-ak0k
- DonaldFisk 5y ago
  Thanks for the Norman Greenbaum link. I'm familiar with the song, but the video's new to me. First psychedelic song I can think of (and I'm a big fan of the genre) is See My Friends by the Kinks (1965): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ugr0pgUo1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ugr0pgUo1c (the video is just of the Kinks performing the song, though). There are plenty of videos used for psychedelic songs, but it's usually hard to tell whether the video was made specifically for the song, and most are either recent or montages of videos from the late 1960s. Some contemporary videos (all from 1967) for psychedelic songs which are more than the just the group performing: Strawberry Fields Forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8 A Day in the Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM Arnold Layne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3DGpINHX5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3DGpINHX5Q See Emily Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0EDM-Yu9o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0EDM-Yu9o Paper Sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cp_3NEWTzU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cp_3NEWTzU
  - Alex3917 5y ago
    That Paper Sun example is really good. I like how they're shaking the camera to make the masks look like they're breathing. And the Strawberry Fields Forever example is also super interesting because the parts with the piano are more surrealist, but the closeup shots of their faces are more early psychedelia.
- helsinkiandrew 5y ago
  Unfortunately the ‘video’ didn’t really exist in the form that we know it today and often it was just the band playing with a light show: Pink Floyd on the BBC in 67: https://youtu.be/uTfDUyUkVYE https://youtu.be/uTfDUyUkVYE
  - twic 5y ago
    My dad remembers having seen Pink Floyd live while at university, which i think would be 1963 - 1967. He said they had a similar light show live, based on a sort of lava lamp projector device, like this modern one: https://www.mathmos.com/mathmos-space-projector-light-with-lava-lamp-1516-0.html https://www.mathmos.com/mathmos-space-projector-light-with-l...
    - Joeboy 5y ago
      For some of that period, they were living in Mike Leonard's house. Leonard was a lecturer at Hornsey Art College, specializing in light shows. To some extent, Pink Floyd's early career was an offshoot of his need for a musical component to his multimedia shows. Here's a (sadly monochrome) indication of the sort of thing they got up to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUjrxxYBsi4&t=278s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUjrxxYBsi4&t=278s
- okareaman 5y ago
  The short film The Beatles made for Strawberry Fields in 1966 was an early "music video" with psychedelic overtones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8
- JKCalhoun 5y ago
  The "tripping" scene from "Easy Rider" comes to mind — same era though (NSFW, isn't Tony Basil in this scene? https://youtu.be/W2x20CV0EbI https://youtu.be/W2x20CV0EbI). Also, this clip (NSFW) from "Altered States" is just as trippy: https://youtu.be/E1ZGEvJPQ6A https://youtu.be/E1ZGEvJPQ6A The complete Roger Corman film "The Trip" (1967) referenced in the article is on YT in the U.S.: https://youtu.be/FmZCwcGu_2I https://youtu.be/FmZCwcGu_2I
- eplanit 5y ago
  In 2001:A Space Odyssey, the "star gate" sequence is quite psychedelic; and this was 1967. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNbkKBW0K8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNbkKBW0K8
  - babyshake 5y ago
    I like to imagine lots of people tripping and going to this movie because of the light show they heard about, but the part that really blows their mind being the whole sequence with HAL 9000.
    - eplanit 5y ago
      I was 8 years old when I saw it -- no movie has influenced me like that one. At that age, the star gate scene was kind of scary; but, yes, the HAL 9000 had a _huge_ impact on me. One of the best films, ever.
      - magicalhippo 5y ago
        Having only seen in on TV (multiple times) I saw the 70mm version at a local cinema recently. Amazing experience, and it holds up remarkably well IMHO.
  - weef 5y ago
    Great example! It was 1968 actually, I saw it at the theater when I was 7 years old.
  - ffhhj 5y ago
    https://archive.org/details/TheBlackHoleMovie https://archive.org/details/TheBlackHoleMovie
- scarecrowbob 5y ago
  IMO, the Psych rock scene starts a little earlier than the Byrds. I used to play with the rhythm section of the 13th floor elevators, and a couple of folks claim that they were one of the first bands that was doing a lot of psychedelic drugs as part of the shows. That may be an exaggeration, but it was certainly interesting to hear their stories from when they were kiddos. However, it's hard to find video representations of that scene... like, you've got a bunch of teenagers tripping at concerts, but that's not even something that registers enough for the larger culture so instead you get normal teeny-bopper representations of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6gDKsPQDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6gDKsPQDM If you go back to, say, Dali or Luis Buñuel then you'll find plenty of psychadelia in early film, though inflected a bit differently.
  - Joeboy 5y ago
    I think the "official" history is that the Elevators and Jefferson Airplane independently and simultaneously invented psychedelic rock. I'm impressed you played with (a couple of) the Elevators.
    - smhenderson 5y ago
      So where do the Grateful Dead fit in? There's audio from their Acid Tests with Ken Kesey in 1966 [0] - a lot of the music they are playing is more blues/country based but with a definite "psychedelic feel" to it. My understanding is that the Dead and JA worked pretty closely together at this time, along with other lesser known, or now forgotten bands, like Quicksilver Messenger Service (John Cippolina) and Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin). I can honestly say I never heard of the Elevators though so I wasn't sure how far back in the 60's you and the parent are talking with regards to them. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6H7maZ1das https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6H7maZ1das
      - scarecrowbob 5y ago
        Well, I dunno how well forgotten QMS. or BB are... to me, all these folks were playing some version of the blues but ran through the filter of young folks on acid. And they are all about obscure with folks these days. My understanding is that Tommy Hall claims to have invented the term "psych rock", but as the wiki points out, folks like the Holy Modal Rounders might have already been using it. According to my buddy from the elevators (who was, like, 72 when I started playing with him), the Dead an JA really (really) sucked and mostly got traction because they could make drugs show up. He was saying they were literally doing free shows and handing out pot. As for JA, my buddy was claiming that they were pretty bad, to the point of not understanding how to tune their instruments. I personally really like the dead, though I never saw them in person, and I am pretty sure there is some amount of sour grapes. But still, they were out there in SF off and on during that time, so I'm just reporting what he said. Given the nature of this music, I feel that the innovation is what drugs folks were taking at the show... so it doesn't seem odd to me that there are strange mixes of pop, blues, country, bluegrass, etc. I will say that the elevators might also reasonably be termed Texas Garage rock, which some folks consider a specific genera, and which has a lot pop-ier connotations to me. Those same kids were really into the blues. Moving Sidewalks, for instance, was influenced by the elevators but became ZZ Top rather than something more psychedelic, and there were a whole scene of kids a few years younger in Ft. Worth who skipped the psych and played the blues (Bug Henderson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Marc Benno, another weirdo in Kerrville I was playing with for a bit). Joplin also came out of Texas at that time (she came out of Port A), and as far as I could tell a lot of these folks knew each other and had been playing shows with similar groups in the 65 and early 66. To your question, I think that the dead really took the psych banner and ran with it. Surely someone would if not them, cause it's fun to drop acid and listen to music. They seemed to have a much, much better head for business than any of these other groups, and so they built a much more recognizable and main stream enterprise out of touring and lighting folks up.
- tallies 5y ago
  Psychedelic music evolved out of the Space Age Pop easy listening genre from the 40s-60s (e.g. Joe Meek's I Hear A New World) and minimalist classical music (e.g. La Monte Young). Psychedelic sequences in film evolved from non-narrative abstract experimental films from the same era (e.g. Stan Brakhage)
- weef 5y ago
  The entire 1968 Yellow Submarine movie from The Beatles is a good example, particularly the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds scene.
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- parenthesis 5y ago
  The final sequence in the 1943 (yes, 1943!) movie musical The Gang's All Here ("let's throw a party to encourage people to buy war bonds!") is seriously psychedelic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJHfApfdWW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJHfApfdWW0 It's Busby Berkeley, of course, but unlike most of his work, in Technicolor.
twic 5y ago
The Hollyridge Strings version of 'Strawberry Fields Forever' (1967), as mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDleZB8Zas0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDleZB8Zas0 Soon put me in mind of King Tubby's 'String Dub In Rema' (1976), from a very different but also very psychedelic genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhee7fkkG6w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhee7fkkG6w
WesleyHale 5y ago
Spotify link from the article: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AolfVOnGnLxl7hfgn3Owa?si=PULSym7ESKS9WNXwz0_Zzg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AolfVOnGnLxl7hfgn3Owa?si=...
yboris 5y ago
Side note: modern electronic music sounds absolutely phenomenal when under the influence of LSD (or Mushrooms, or weed for that matter). Consider: https://youtu.be/SD6GDiyHmbE?t=918 https://youtu.be/SD6GDiyHmbE?t=918
- 52-6F-62 5y ago
  Isn't that true of all good music, my friend?
- goldenkey 5y ago
  I'd say that psychedelic dub is a bit more fitting. CONNECT.OHM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKFPdxZjc4&list=PLRpXl5QdzSqXdUkHHR45GUEmSIxbbQ-JY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKFPdxZjc4&list=PLRpXl5QdzS... Carbon Based Lifeforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQE29az48gM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQE29az48gM I can provide a playlist if anyone wants more of this type of music. Blood Music label contracts and supports a lot of these artists.
  - heavenlyblue 5y ago
    Also Ultimae Records
    - goldenkey 5y ago
      Indeed, AES Dana bringing it hard!
  - futureproofd 5y ago
    Would be much appreciated! I don't know if you've heard it before, but Biosphere - Substrata is a fantastic album (possibly for a psychedelic trip as well!)
    - goldenkey 5y ago
      Listening to the album now, thanks for the recommendation. Here's a few great psydub artists: Ott: https://ottsonic.bandcamp.com/ https://ottsonic.bandcamp.com/ Shpongle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S99IKbu8eyE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S99IKbu8eyE Emancipator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSN4DLG6Ng&list=PL7669BCCE53A9C09A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSN4DLG6Ng&list=PL7669BCCE5... AES Dana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJnWNxSWjIs&list=PLRpXl5QdzSqXrW1f13vem04jTU0nqTAYR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJnWNxSWjIs&list=PLRpXl5QdzS... And not really exactly psydub, but credit to what started it all: Aphex Twin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw5AiRVqfqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw5AiRVqfqk The Psychedelic Muse YT channel has a better curated selection than I could provide: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePsychedelicMuse/playlists https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePsychedelicMuse/playlists Also, checkout the Ultimae Records YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ultimaerecordsofficial/playlists https://www.youtube.com/c/ultimaerecordsofficial/playlists Cheers.
thomasfl 5y ago
James Last‘s version of Aquarius has a bassline that puts you in a trance. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/tv1bDDdyvEk https://youtu.be/tv1bDDdyvEk
squarefoot 5y ago
Ozric Tentacles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTxhbPgLQI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTxhbPgLQI
verynice314 5y ago
You're welcome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZUG653xJ7Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZUG653xJ7Q
miles 5y ago
Piper at the Gates of Dawn is sine qua non for this sort of treasury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRG9CttHW68&list=PLpI6XGqHb_GQIHfInrgA5MWAufzWw5H9z https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRG9CttHW68&list=PLpI6XGqHb_...
state_less 5y ago
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high I tore my mind on a jagged sky I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in -Kenny Rogers, Just Dropped In https://youtu.be/6WUTlCTi7fg https://youtu.be/6WUTlCTi7fg
narrator 5y ago
David McGowan's book "Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon" is one ridiculously deep and awesome rabbit hole. It's the history of everything bad, sinister, and just plain weird that went on in Laurel Canyon in L.A during the 60s and the birth of the hippie movement that arose suddenly seemingly out of nowhere. It's arguably even more of an acid trip than listening to the music.
8bitsrule 5y ago
Countless overlooked would-be psych bands of that era (many created to cash in), I was surprised the day I found one-album band 'Clear Light' (played with Hendrix, Doors, Joplin). Album: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvkYzF3xmLs&list=PL8a8cutYP7fqyw_t5WmWPRKZnxHixCF-5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvkYzF3xmLs&list=PL8a8cutYP7...] Details: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160823124408/http://www.officialclearlight.com/illumination.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160823124408/http://www.offici...] Drummer Dallas Taylor is found on a lot of Crosby, Stills, Nash records. Vocalist Cliff De Young soon went into acting, has appeared in over 80 films.

126 points by tintinnabula 5y ago

What are the earliest examples of psychedelic video? For music everyone seems to agree that the first psychedelic song was 8 miles high, but I can't find an answer for film. The movies from 1966 and 1967 seem to just portray people tripping by projecting multicolored lights onto their mostly naked bodies. But then by 1969(?), you have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzFUX5a3xg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzFUX5a3xg Which is basically the same as Altered States, and everything after up until the era of computer graphics. But is there anything in between, before that spirit in the sky video? See also the relevant Altered States scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40FiMy-ak0k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40FiMy-ak0k

DonaldFisk 5y ago
Thanks for the Norman Greenbaum link. I'm familiar with the song, but the video's new to me. First psychedelic song I can think of (and I'm a big fan of the genre) is See My Friends by the Kinks (1965): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ugr0pgUo1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ugr0pgUo1c (the video is just of the Kinks performing the song, though). There are plenty of videos used for psychedelic songs, but it's usually hard to tell whether the video was made specifically for the song, and most are either recent or montages of videos from the late 1960s. Some contemporary videos (all from 1967) for psychedelic songs which are more than the just the group performing: Strawberry Fields Forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8 A Day in the Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM Arnold Layne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3DGpINHX5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3DGpINHX5Q See Emily Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0EDM-Yu9o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0EDM-Yu9o Paper Sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cp_3NEWTzU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cp_3NEWTzU
- Alex3917 5y ago
  That Paper Sun example is really good. I like how they're shaking the camera to make the masks look like they're breathing. And the Strawberry Fields Forever example is also super interesting because the parts with the piano are more surrealist, but the closeup shots of their faces are more early psychedelia.
helsinkiandrew 5y ago
Unfortunately the ‘video’ didn’t really exist in the form that we know it today and often it was just the band playing with a light show: Pink Floyd on the BBC in 67: https://youtu.be/uTfDUyUkVYE https://youtu.be/uTfDUyUkVYE
- twic 5y ago
  My dad remembers having seen Pink Floyd live while at university, which i think would be 1963 - 1967. He said they had a similar light show live, based on a sort of lava lamp projector device, like this modern one: https://www.mathmos.com/mathmos-space-projector-light-with-lava-lamp-1516-0.html https://www.mathmos.com/mathmos-space-projector-light-with-l...
  - Joeboy 5y ago
    For some of that period, they were living in Mike Leonard's house. Leonard was a lecturer at Hornsey Art College, specializing in light shows. To some extent, Pink Floyd's early career was an offshoot of his need for a musical component to his multimedia shows. Here's a (sadly monochrome) indication of the sort of thing they got up to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUjrxxYBsi4&t=278s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUjrxxYBsi4&t=278s
okareaman 5y ago
The short film The Beatles made for Strawberry Fields in 1966 was an early "music video" with psychedelic overtones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8
JKCalhoun 5y ago
The "tripping" scene from "Easy Rider" comes to mind — same era though (NSFW, isn't Tony Basil in this scene? https://youtu.be/W2x20CV0EbI https://youtu.be/W2x20CV0EbI). Also, this clip (NSFW) from "Altered States" is just as trippy: https://youtu.be/E1ZGEvJPQ6A https://youtu.be/E1ZGEvJPQ6A The complete Roger Corman film "The Trip" (1967) referenced in the article is on YT in the U.S.: https://youtu.be/FmZCwcGu_2I https://youtu.be/FmZCwcGu_2I
eplanit 5y ago
In 2001:A Space Odyssey, the "star gate" sequence is quite psychedelic; and this was 1967. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNbkKBW0K8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNbkKBW0K8
- babyshake 5y ago
  I like to imagine lots of people tripping and going to this movie because of the light show they heard about, but the part that really blows their mind being the whole sequence with HAL 9000.
  - eplanit 5y ago
    I was 8 years old when I saw it -- no movie has influenced me like that one. At that age, the star gate scene was kind of scary; but, yes, the HAL 9000 had a _huge_ impact on me. One of the best films, ever.
    - magicalhippo 5y ago
      Having only seen in on TV (multiple times) I saw the 70mm version at a local cinema recently. Amazing experience, and it holds up remarkably well IMHO.
- weef 5y ago
  Great example! It was 1968 actually, I saw it at the theater when I was 7 years old.
- ffhhj 5y ago
  https://archive.org/details/TheBlackHoleMovie https://archive.org/details/TheBlackHoleMovie
scarecrowbob 5y ago
IMO, the Psych rock scene starts a little earlier than the Byrds. I used to play with the rhythm section of the 13th floor elevators, and a couple of folks claim that they were one of the first bands that was doing a lot of psychedelic drugs as part of the shows. That may be an exaggeration, but it was certainly interesting to hear their stories from when they were kiddos. However, it's hard to find video representations of that scene... like, you've got a bunch of teenagers tripping at concerts, but that's not even something that registers enough for the larger culture so instead you get normal teeny-bopper representations of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6gDKsPQDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6gDKsPQDM If you go back to, say, Dali or Luis Buñuel then you'll find plenty of psychadelia in early film, though inflected a bit differently.
- Joeboy 5y ago
  I think the "official" history is that the Elevators and Jefferson Airplane independently and simultaneously invented psychedelic rock. I'm impressed you played with (a couple of) the Elevators.
  - smhenderson 5y ago
    So where do the Grateful Dead fit in? There's audio from their Acid Tests with Ken Kesey in 1966 [0] - a lot of the music they are playing is more blues/country based but with a definite "psychedelic feel" to it. My understanding is that the Dead and JA worked pretty closely together at this time, along with other lesser known, or now forgotten bands, like Quicksilver Messenger Service (John Cippolina) and Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin). I can honestly say I never heard of the Elevators though so I wasn't sure how far back in the 60's you and the parent are talking with regards to them. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6H7maZ1das https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6H7maZ1das
    - scarecrowbob 5y ago
      Well, I dunno how well forgotten QMS. or BB are... to me, all these folks were playing some version of the blues but ran through the filter of young folks on acid. And they are all about obscure with folks these days. My understanding is that Tommy Hall claims to have invented the term "psych rock", but as the wiki points out, folks like the Holy Modal Rounders might have already been using it. According to my buddy from the elevators (who was, like, 72 when I started playing with him), the Dead an JA really (really) sucked and mostly got traction because they could make drugs show up. He was saying they were literally doing free shows and handing out pot. As for JA, my buddy was claiming that they were pretty bad, to the point of not understanding how to tune their instruments. I personally really like the dead, though I never saw them in person, and I am pretty sure there is some amount of sour grapes. But still, they were out there in SF off and on during that time, so I'm just reporting what he said. Given the nature of this music, I feel that the innovation is what drugs folks were taking at the show... so it doesn't seem odd to me that there are strange mixes of pop, blues, country, bluegrass, etc. I will say that the elevators might also reasonably be termed Texas Garage rock, which some folks consider a specific genera, and which has a lot pop-ier connotations to me. Those same kids were really into the blues. Moving Sidewalks, for instance, was influenced by the elevators but became ZZ Top rather than something more psychedelic, and there were a whole scene of kids a few years younger in Ft. Worth who skipped the psych and played the blues (Bug Henderson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Marc Benno, another weirdo in Kerrville I was playing with for a bit). Joplin also came out of Texas at that time (she came out of Port A), and as far as I could tell a lot of these folks knew each other and had been playing shows with similar groups in the 65 and early 66. To your question, I think that the dead really took the psych banner and ran with it. Surely someone would if not them, cause it's fun to drop acid and listen to music. They seemed to have a much, much better head for business than any of these other groups, and so they built a much more recognizable and main stream enterprise out of touring and lighting folks up.
tallies 5y ago
Psychedelic music evolved out of the Space Age Pop easy listening genre from the 40s-60s (e.g. Joe Meek's I Hear A New World) and minimalist classical music (e.g. La Monte Young). Psychedelic sequences in film evolved from non-narrative abstract experimental films from the same era (e.g. Stan Brakhage)
weef 5y ago
The entire 1968 Yellow Submarine movie from The Beatles is a good example, particularly the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds scene.
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parenthesis 5y ago
The final sequence in the 1943 (yes, 1943!) movie musical The Gang's All Here ("let's throw a party to encourage people to buy war bonds!") is seriously psychedelic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJHfApfdWW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJHfApfdWW0 It's Busby Berkeley, of course, but unlike most of his work, in Technicolor.

twic 5y ago

The Hollyridge Strings version of 'Strawberry Fields Forever' (1967), as mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDleZB8Zas0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDleZB8Zas0 Soon put me in mind of King Tubby's 'String Dub In Rema' (1976), from a very different but also very psychedelic genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhee7fkkG6w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhee7fkkG6w

WesleyHale 5y ago

Spotify link from the article: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AolfVOnGnLxl7hfgn3Owa?si=PULSym7ESKS9WNXwz0_Zzg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AolfVOnGnLxl7hfgn3Owa?si=...

yboris 5y ago

Side note: modern electronic music sounds absolutely phenomenal when under the influence of LSD (or Mushrooms, or weed for that matter). Consider: https://youtu.be/SD6GDiyHmbE?t=918 https://youtu.be/SD6GDiyHmbE?t=918

52-6F-62 5y ago
Isn't that true of all good music, my friend?
goldenkey 5y ago
I'd say that psychedelic dub is a bit more fitting. CONNECT.OHM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKFPdxZjc4&list=PLRpXl5QdzSqXdUkHHR45GUEmSIxbbQ-JY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKFPdxZjc4&list=PLRpXl5QdzS... Carbon Based Lifeforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQE29az48gM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQE29az48gM I can provide a playlist if anyone wants more of this type of music. Blood Music label contracts and supports a lot of these artists.
- heavenlyblue 5y ago
  Also Ultimae Records
  - goldenkey 5y ago
    Indeed, AES Dana bringing it hard!
- futureproofd 5y ago
  Would be much appreciated! I don't know if you've heard it before, but Biosphere - Substrata is a fantastic album (possibly for a psychedelic trip as well!)
  - goldenkey 5y ago
    Listening to the album now, thanks for the recommendation. Here's a few great psydub artists: Ott: https://ottsonic.bandcamp.com/ https://ottsonic.bandcamp.com/ Shpongle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S99IKbu8eyE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S99IKbu8eyE Emancipator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSN4DLG6Ng&list=PL7669BCCE53A9C09A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSN4DLG6Ng&list=PL7669BCCE5... AES Dana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJnWNxSWjIs&list=PLRpXl5QdzSqXrW1f13vem04jTU0nqTAYR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJnWNxSWjIs&list=PLRpXl5QdzS... And not really exactly psydub, but credit to what started it all: Aphex Twin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw5AiRVqfqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw5AiRVqfqk The Psychedelic Muse YT channel has a better curated selection than I could provide: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePsychedelicMuse/playlists https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePsychedelicMuse/playlists Also, checkout the Ultimae Records YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ultimaerecordsofficial/playlists https://www.youtube.com/c/ultimaerecordsofficial/playlists Cheers.

thomasfl 5y ago

James Last‘s version of Aquarius has a bassline that puts you in a trance. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/tv1bDDdyvEk https://youtu.be/tv1bDDdyvEk

squarefoot 5y ago

Ozric Tentacles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTxhbPgLQI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTxhbPgLQI

verynice314 5y ago

You're welcome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZUG653xJ7Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZUG653xJ7Q

miles 5y ago

Piper at the Gates of Dawn is sine qua non for this sort of treasury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRG9CttHW68&list=PLpI6XGqHb_GQIHfInrgA5MWAufzWw5H9z https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRG9CttHW68&list=PLpI6XGqHb_...

state_less 5y ago

I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high I tore my mind on a jagged sky I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in -Kenny Rogers, Just Dropped In https://youtu.be/6WUTlCTi7fg https://youtu.be/6WUTlCTi7fg

narrator 5y ago

David McGowan's book "Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon" is one ridiculously deep and awesome rabbit hole. It's the history of everything bad, sinister, and just plain weird that went on in Laurel Canyon in L.A during the 60s and the birth of the hippie movement that arose suddenly seemingly out of nowhere. It's arguably even more of an acid trip than listening to the music.

8bitsrule 5y ago

Countless overlooked would-be psych bands of that era (many created to cash in), I was surprised the day I found one-album band 'Clear Light' (played with Hendrix, Doors, Joplin). Album: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvkYzF3xmLs&list=PL8a8cutYP7fqyw_t5WmWPRKZnxHixCF-5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvkYzF3xmLs&list=PL8a8cutYP7...] Details: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160823124408/http://www.officialclearlight.com/illumination.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160823124408/http://www.offici...] Drummer Dallas Taylor is found on a lot of Crosby, Stills, Nash records. Vocalist Cliff De Young soon went into acting, has appeared in over 80 films.